International Journal of Servant-Leadership
Abstract
Executive Summary The mandate for business leaders to consistently predict and achieve economic success reverberates throughout American society. Many leaders who wish to practice transformational leadership are faced with the dilemma of implementing command and control, productivity driven leadership techniques to achieve bottom-line results. These management practices were developed during a time when the workplace was perceived as a place of cause and effect, action and reaction. The ideal employee was one whose actions matched the consistency and reliability of a machine. This focus on Frederick Taylor's management techniques, in the workplace and in many MBA programs, may in fact undermine the economic success of organizations. The opportunities for American businesses in the 21st century have to do with developing our greatest assets, which are our emotional intelligence and our ability to take responsibility and make innovative decisions. The author of this article believes that a deeper examination of the steward leader model offers business leaders an opportunity to integrate transformational leadership values with economic values in an organization's operating model. The approach is centered on the concept of stewardship. In this article, the author outlines the elements of a steward leader model that emerged as a result of conducting a review of the literature and an informal field interview with a steward leader.
Recommended Citation
Geaney, Martha M.
(2007)
"Servant and Steward: The Steward Leader Model for Unleashing Human Potential,"
International Journal of Servant-Leadership: Vol. 3, Article 20.
DOI: 10.33972/ijsl.272
Available at:
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/ijsl/vol3/iss1/20
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